How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
Quotations
Music
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
